FEDERAL RESERVE - First Female Tapped to Chair FED

"Janet Yellen nominated to succeed Bernanke as Federal Reserve chair" PBS Newshour 10/9/2013

Excerpt

SUMMARY:  Following a politically charged search, President Obama named Janet Yellen as his nominee to be the next -- and first female -- chair of the Federal Reserve.  Judy Woodruff gets reactions from Christina Romer of the University of California, Berkeley, and former Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Holtz-Eakin.